"We noticed the rise in car break-ins. It's all over the city, but predominately in my division of eastern Louisville," said LMPD Maj. Mark Fox.

This includes those residents who live, work, and play in the areas of Waterfront Park, Brownsboro Road near the dog park, River Road around the Water Tower and at parks such as Thurman Hutchins Park.

"Since Aug. 1, we've had 110 reported car break-ins, and we really felt it was important to raise the public's awareness to make sure they lock their cars when they're unattended," said Fox.

But that's what concerns police. Locked cars are not a deterrent for the criminals, and neither is a rolled up window.

"The reports that I've analyzed, over 70 percent of those cars are locked and the windows are being broken, so we'd like to raise the awareness and get people to store their valuables or at least take them with them," said Fox.

The most common items stolen are laptops, purses, smartphones and cash. Not much has been recovered from the thefts, but police said they have discovered a pattern of who these criminals target.

"What we're seeing in a lot of these instances is folks that are working out, or running in our parks, going to gyms, going to golf courses, places where your cars are going to be unattended for a period of time and you might choose to leave your purse behind," said Fox.

Police are increasing ATV patrols, bike patrols and they're even installing covert cameras and using undercover officers among other methods.

"We actually set up decoy operations, where we'll have a decoy vehicle with a purse with a tracking device," said Fox.

With LMPD's covert operations plus the public's help, police hope to crack down on these crimes. When asked why there has been a sudden spike, police said the spike in heroin is partly to blame.

Police said besides locking your belongings in your trunk or leaving them at home, there is another protection against this crime.

If you have a smartphone, police said the app that helps locate a phone if it is lost has proven helpful in their investigation and has recovered some phones.

Anyone with further information on the crimes should call the anonymous police tip line at 502-574-LMPD.

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